The exhibition offers a new perspective on Michael Jackson's life and artistic legacy, beyond preconceptions and clichés. 

MICHAEL JACKSON

The Ernst Barlach Museum Ratzeburg: multimedia and interactive. With our online offers you get a first impression of what you can experience live in the museum.

Barlach goes digital

Barlach for Kids is an extraordinary museum experience. A playful laboratory developed for children aged 6 to 12.


Barlach for Kids 

The sculptor, graphic artist and writer Ernst Barlach is one of the most famous artists of German Expressionism. 

The Artist

Every art takes two: one who will make it and one who will need it.

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Open Tuesday to Sunday and on public holidays, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Closed on 24 December and 31 December 2025

Open Wednesday to Sunday and on public holidays, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Winter closure from 3 November 2025 to 27 March 2026. During this period, we are only open to registered visitor groups.

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Ernst Barlach - Käthe Kollwitz

The exhibition uses a wealth of objects, photos, texts, documents and videos to make the life, grandeur and ambivalence of one of the most colourful personalities in rock history visible and tangible.

FREDDIE MERCURY

A total of 150 works offer a fascinating insight into the diversity of artistic and craft expressions of the Belle Époque, a time of upheaval and radical new beginnings.


Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

To mark the 60th anniversary, the exhibition shows 200 motifs by the internationally renowned photographers of the legendary Pirelli calendar.        


PIRELLI - THE CALENDAR   

By awarding the Ernst Barlach Prize 2023 to Leon Löwentraut, Ernst Barlach Gesellschaft Hamburg indicates it's time for a change of perspective.

Leon Löwentraut

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Cooperation museums and cultural institutes

For decades, Ernst Barlach Gesellschafts team has been successfully producing exhibitions for museums and cultural institutes in Germany, Europe and internationally. Benefit from cooperative solutions for your exhibition spaces.

Gottfried Benn called her "the greatest lyric poet Germany has ever had". But Else Lasker-Schüler (1869-1945) was more than that.

Else Lasker-Schüler

Australian Aboriginal art is considered the oldest continuous art tradition in the world. 

Aborigines

Helmut Newton is considered one of the most important photographers of the 20th century. The exhibition shows Newton's life's work as a staged museum tour

Helmut Newton

With unadorned scenes of Parisian nightlife, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec decisively shaped the image of a legendary era, the "Belle Époque".

What makes Käthe Kollwitz, like Ernst Barlach, world-famous artists of modernity is their unbroken advocacy for human beings in their existential life situation. Both saw the task of their art in changing the world from a deep humanistic understanding. Warning against war and committing themselves to peace remains their legacy to this day. 

Ernst Barlach | Käthe Kollwitz

The exhibition traces back one of the most successful and influential bands in music history

The Beatles - Come Together

First with the Beatles, later as a soloist, John Lennon changed the world of pop culture, intertwining music and love, art and politics in an incomparable way.

John Lennon

Like the visual artists, the poets of the time turn their inner selves outward. 

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Ernst Barlach (1870-1938) is one of the most important German artists of the 20th century.

Ernst Barlach

Early on, Käthe Kollwitz conceived her artistic work as a contradiction to a reality perceived as cold and characterized by violence and materialism. 

Käthe Kollwitz

Even sixty years after his death, Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) is still one of the world's most popular and best-selling writers

Hermann Hesse

A life in harmony with nature and his striving for an individual artistic design of all areas of life form the core of Friedensreich Hundertwasser's art

MICHAEL JACKSON

Barlach goes digital

Barlach for Kids

The Artist

Every art takes two: one who will make it and one who will need it.

Ernst Barlach, 1917

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Our Exhibitions

MICHAEL JACKSON

Ernst Barlach - Käthe Kollwitz

FREDDIE MERCURY

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

PIRELLI - THE CALENDAR

Leon Löwentraut

Cooperation museums and cultural institutes

Else Lasker-Schüler

Aborigines

Helmut Newton

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Ernst Barlach | Käthe Kollwitz

The Beatles - Come Together

John Lennon

dawn of mankind

Ernst Barlach

Käthe Kollwitz

Hermann Hesse

Friedensreich Hundertwasser